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Hughan: Woman and War [June 19, 1915] 1 Woman and War by Jessie Wallace Hughan Published in The New York Call, Woman Suffrage Special, June 19, 1915, pg. 3. A younger soldier was telling of life in the are we to sit mute while capitalists foment war, trenches. His eyes glowed as he spoke of the while workingmen declare war, and then to work comradeship, the songs, the fervor of patriotism, and knit and suffer at home? the poignant thrill of the advance, and the hours We are against war. Then let us fight it., of glorious peril that for him had ended in the Only by the ballot can we who care for human wound and the hospital. After him a woman arose, lives make our voice heard above those who care lovely, sad, and black-robed. She told simply of for property and prestige, for national honor and the mothers of the war, their toil, their waiting, national defense, and all the age-old shibboleths and their anguish — of one mother who, hearing that men have elevated above the Ten Command- that her three sons had fallen for the Fatherland, ments. Our hands are tied; votes for women will exclaimed in tearless resignation, “The Lord gave, untie them. the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of War settles nothing, achieves nothing, ex- the Lord.” cept the right of the strongest. Yet there is but “The Lord gave, and we have thrown away,” one political party in the world that knows it came the words to my lips. Why blame our stu- can gain nothing by war, and that is the Socialist pendous folly upon the Lord? In my mind I saw Party. Socialism did not stop the war in Europe, the thousands of mothers — English, French, only because the Socialists were not the majority. German, Belgian — each offering to destruction Read the manifesto of the American Socialist Party that for which she had suffered, tearing her heart after the Lusitania disaster, and then find one non- out — for what? That the boys might thrill with Socialist political body in the world that has dared an hour’s romance, and that the map of Europe to approach its bold stand against war. A vote for might remain unchanged. Socialism is a vote for peace. It is real and sincere, we know. Whatever Yet war may come upon us today or tomor- may be the economic motives of the powers that row, before suffrage, before Socialism. Will you, make war, the women who give their dearest give then, send your sons to the slaughter because a them as unto the Lord, and many, at least, of the capitalist government invites them? There is such a boys who go on the hideous field of battle do so thing as a strike — a general strike possibly — but in the spirit of unselfish idealism. best and most direct of all, an enlistment strike. Yet so did the women who threw their babies So far our country has no conscription. We are to the crocodiles; so did the men who cast them- free to refuse point blank. If you, man or woman, selves under the wheels of the Juggernaut. are ready to make this refusal, will you sign and And we women of America, Socialist women, forward the following pledge: 1 2 Hughan: Woman and War [June 19, 1915] I, being 18 years of age, hereby pledge myself against enlistment as a volunteer for any military or naval service in international war, and against giving my approval to such enlistment on the part of others. Name __________________________________ __ Address ________________________________ __ (Please forward pledge to Anti-Enlistment League, 61 Quincy Street, Brooklyn, NY). Let us work for suffrage; let us work for So- cialism. Yet should the madness come before the women can cry halt, before the working class can cry halt, let us take our stand boldly against the hoary fetish of war, and refuse. Edited by Tim Davenport. Published by 1000 Flowers Publishing, Corvallis, OR, 2011. • Non-commercial reproduction permitted. http://www.marxisthistory.org.
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